Amy Coney Barrett rips Ketanji Brown Jackson over dissent in birthright citizenship case | 27 June 2025 | Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stunned veteran bench watchers Friday with a blunt takedown of liberal Justice [auto-pen DEI appointment] Ketanji Brown Jackson's "extreme" dissent in the landmark birthright citizenship case in which the Supreme Court curtailed lower court use of universal injunctions. "We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself," wrote Barrett, the court's second-newest justice, in a jaw-dropping rebuke of her colleague, the newest justice. "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary." Barrett had authored the majority opinion in the case, the most consequential on the docket this term, which gave President Trump a major win by limiting the power of district judges to block his actions.